Friends of the Tree

Development Updates

Fx 2.0.0.15 / TB 2.0.0.15

Shipped Firefox 2.0.0.15 RC1 to the beta channel on Wednesday after server load lessened. Unfortunately, we had a couple bugs we had to fix. They've now landed and builds are on their way (Mac and Linux available). We intend to go to the beta channel again this week and release next week (targeting July 1 for release).

Thunderbird 2.0.0.15 has been delayed as a result of this respin. We're unsure of the schedule, but we'll update the wiki as we know more.

L10n

Community report

Parties are continuing to happen this week by and for many Localizers and we supported many folks in organizing them over last week: Barcelona, Italy, Madrid, Paris, Romania, Sri Lanka. 3 parties in Catelanan/Valencia areas. We know there are more but these are the ones we've been directly supporting or involved with.

Romania, SriLanka, Frisian, Greek looking for help in marketing and/or community building. Romania and Greece specifically looking to develop out a community portal which Pascal is helping with.

Tools

We have been working with the community to gather information on tools available and being used so that we can better support and scale translation. We've code named that initiative "Verbatim". Wil Clouser will be hosting a brown bag hopefully later this week (confirmation to come shortly). More information is available on our Verbatim wiki page and Seth wrote a good blog post on a summary of what we found out and discussed at Fosdem earlier this year

Firefox

Not much to report. We have now officially shifted focus to 3.1 and 3.0.1 releases. We are getting many requests for more support on mailto and webcal protocol handlers from third party vendors which we're working with Evangelism to field

Foundation Updates

Grants and related activities

Wellington Fernando de Macedo has been working on his server-sent DOM events project; this is continuing and extending the work referenced in bug 338583.

Frank corresponded with the organizers of the W4A conference about renewing Mozilla Foundation sponsorship for 2009.

CAs and related issues

Frank gave preliminary approval for Entrust's request to enable the Entrust Root Certification Authority for EV (bug 416544), and opened up a second public comment period.

Public communication

David met with Samuel Sidler and Reed Loden about future www.mozilla.org changes.

David also worked to get a new draft of the Mozilla brochure created; because of problems with getting model releases signed, we'll be switchng to a new photo for the brochure.